these interventions were administered along with standard treatment i.e. DOTS at the time of standard follow up of patients at clinic

Cured: If the patient was sputum smear positive (ss+ve) at the time of enrollment, completed treatment, Had negative smear on 2 occasions during follow-up

Treatment completed: SS+ve, or SS-ve or extra-pulmonary, had a negative smear result at the end of intensive phase but no smear result at the end of treatment completed 8 month treatment

died during the course of treatment

not collected drugs for more than 2 consecutive months either sputum smear positive or negative

Treatment failure: SS+ve, found to be smear positive at 5th month or later or SS-ve found to be smear positive at 2nd month

Transferred to another TB register